Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Hello World!

The first blog post of the Active Potential Community Collective, Huzzah!

About Us:

The Active Potential Community Collective seeks to connect local activists, artists, intellectuals, students, and workers within the Hudson Valley Bioregion.

We are individuals seeking to transform the world we live in.

What we do:

  1. Distribute alternative media
    • Disseminate films, magazines, books, pamphlets, newsletters, art & music that convey leftist attitudes.

  1. Community Education & critical dialogue
    • Encouraging everyone to be become both student and teacher within the community.
    • We will provide a forum for open discussion on socio-political-economic-environmental issues.
    • An emphasis will be placed on creating realistic, applicable solutions to these problems.

  1. Align ourselves with local interests.
    • Cooperation with local farmers and small business owners is a necessity to encourage long-term, sustainable growth.
    • Encouraging and enabling local artists to become more active and conscious within their creative process.

  1. Action oriented activity
    • Host a variety of events including concerts, workshops, speaker series, demonstrations(e.g. marches, protests, occupations)
    • Participate in certain letter writing and petition campaigns.